Word: toning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...know when he will go on-line. Since August, Prodigy has been running an electronic town meeting in which Bill Clinton and George Bush chat with its 1.75 million subscribers. Members have flooded the candidates with more than 150,000 questions. Clinton answered 50 queries, all in a folksy tone, signed "Sincerely, Bill Clinton." Bush, who signs his more formal electronic notes simply "President George Bush," has replied to only about 25 queries so far. Neither side, though, has been willing to answer one of the most popular questions: "If you win the election, will you stay on- line...
Haden has a distinctive style, lyric and elemental in equal proportions, that is ideally suited to this kind of experimental time tripping. "He has a big, warm, rich tone, and his approach is very traditional," says Rob Gibson, director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, for which one of Haden's groups, the Liberation Music Orchestra, will perform in 1993. "It's almost country sounding, but it's really swinging...
These landmarks in the Ivy calendar will help determine the tone for the rest of Harvard's league schedule, which still includes both the Big Green and the Tigers. Crimson G. Bart Kasowski PING LEE and JOSH MARTIN (9) celebrate a goal earlier this season. There wasn't much joy Thursday, however, when the team lost...
...that the atmosphere is sexist, the women add; it just reminds them of their fathers. In addition, they feel oppressed by the Anglo-Saxon tone of the clubs, calling them "WASP theme parks." One female ex-member of the Tavern Club summed up the discontent by saying that although some men are "trying to change," most are unwilling to "change the things that most are most those white Anglo-Saxon males grew up with...
That conversation, though, set an uneasy tone for the summer. To my colleagues, journalism wasn't considered just another career interest. I was The Crimson and The Crimson was me. I sometimes sensed the feeling that editing a newspaper precluded my being human. When I took my camera to a picnic, the other proctors playfully resisted--asking, half-seriously, if the pictures would be printed. This was funny once. It wasn't funny the second time, nor the sixth...